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Texas Sues Halal Group Over Food Safety

The state of Texas is suing a Halal food establishment and its business partners for several food safety violations, including holding food in an extremely unsanitary warehouse, Courthouse News Service reported yesterday.

Halal Import Food Market’s warehouse was inspected after a Texas state trooper found 148 dead goat carcasses stacked inside an unrefrigerated van. Health inspectors not only found filthy conditions at the warehouse, but discovered that 102 dead goats and boxes of organs had disappeared in transit.

According to Courthouse News Service, the complaint describes the warehouse as having, “dead birds and bird droppings on food products…live bird flying around the warehouse and resting on food products,” and points to “trash piled 6 feet deep in some places.”

The complaint also adds that inspectors found “numerous dead rodents, numerous rodent droppings along with gnawed materials and debris,” and meat rotting in a grinder.

“Cigarette butts, rotting fruit, peels, partially eaten chicken and other food,” were also scattered about the warehouse, according to the complaint.

This is very bad news for the Muslim community who pay top dollar for halal meet which is supposed to be the cleanest meat and blessed by the name of god at slaughtering. The lack of authority over halal meat markets allows supermarkets like the ones mentioned above to cheat and take advantage of innocent Muslims.

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Yet in Eurabia, there have been issues of contamination for halal slaughtered animals. Slitting the throat while the animal is conscious and struggling exposes the meat to leakage out the esophagus, and the food borne pathogens, such as E. coli, in the digestive tract. Also, I’ve seen animals slaughtered like this. There’s nothing clean about it, the animal struggles, tries to scream but it’s gurgly-sounding, and is choking on it’s own blood. “Innocent” is hardly a word I would apply to anyone who would do this.